Effective team building

In today’s work environment, building teams and working as a team is important as organizations are increasingly becoming more and more virtually based. In the business world, it takes managers and employees to run a corporation, but it as a team they need to often work together for a common goal to plan, organize, lead and control. These organizations have learned to enable employees and establish teams to solve problems, develop plans, and make effective decisions. The role of a business manager has changed dramatically over the years ("Building and Leading High Performance Teams - Teambuilding | Inc.com", n.d.) Managers of today and tomorrow will need effective team building skills in order to make every effort to maintain organizational success. As a result, working in teams brings benefits to both team members and organizations. A results catalyst supports team decisions and creates clear performance goals (Fisher & Fisher, 2011, p. 30). This management style begins with a team, along with establishing a team charter and operating guidelines helps maintain attitude that every employee does their share. A team is a group of people with a common collective goal. An effective team is not based on one person. Like the saying “There is no 'I' in TEAM”. Team work is when employees put aside their personal goals and preferences and work together cooperatively to achieve the team’s goal. Forming successful teams can become a challenge because you have to get all the right people in one group. Sometimes you do not always get to choose the right people, but in order to have a successful team, a leader should make every effort to learn about the people that they have to work with, so they have background knowledge of everyone on the team. This helps because he or she will be able to help each one in a respectable manner in reference to a barrier buster. Also it will help later if a problem might occur among them. Team building plays an important role in the workplace. While team building experiences can be successful or unsuccessful it is important to incorporate positive and successful activities. Team building can also help form friendships and trust between employees. When the team’s morale, motives and goals are on the same page, everything runs smoothly. When establishing a team and if the leader has the opportunity to choose the team members, it is important to consider several characteristics that help make a team an effective team. . Not every team needs a leader to drive them to success but if one is placed in the role of a leader, to be effective, the leader must allow input from the team members, they will also need to make decisions and assign tasks to team members in line with the team goal. It is important to keep the individual input organized for everyone to keep the direction clear. It is the responsibility of the leader to steer the team’s direction in a way that the atmosphere and environment allows open communication, everyone is involved, individual skills are used to benefit the team, and the goals remain clear. Every team needs a clear goal to embrace and be empowered with. Teams are challenged with the different backgrounds, experiences, as well as personal goals or objectives they wish to achieve like work-life balance. The direction must be clear enough for the team to understand what is required for success and what each team member must do to achieve that. The key to team dynamics is being able to work together. (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2007, p. 42) indicates that many team members may come to a team environment use to doing their own thing. The team can have a superior combined skill set, but if they are unable to work together their understanding will be overlooked (p. 43). Communication is the key to the success of any team. (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2007, p. 44) said “building and maintaining an open and trusting environment is...

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Dynamics
Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, students should be able to:
Define teams.
Distinguish departmental teams from team-based organizations.
Explain why virtual teams are becoming more common.
Outline the model of team effectiveness.
Identify six organizational and team environmental elements that influence team effectiveness.
Explain the influence of the team’s task, size, and composition on team effectiveness.
Describe the five stages of team development.
Identify four factors that shape team norms.
List six factors that influence team cohesiveness.
Discuss the limitations of teams.
Explain how companies minimize social loafing.
Summarize the four types of teambuilding.
Chapter Glossary
Coalition: An informal group that attempts to influence people outside the group by pooling the resources and power of its members.
Communities of practice: Informal groups bound together by shared expertise and passion for a particular activity or interest.
Dialogue: A process of conversation among team members in which they learn about each other’s mental models and assumptions, and eventually form a common model for thinking within the team.
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Outcome 1: Understand theories of teams and team working
The question asks you about ‘models of team work’. What it means by this is to research, and explain theory’s around teamwork. The best know theory around teamwork is by a man called Bruce Tuckman.
Below is an overview of his theory:
The 4 Phases of Tuckman’s Teamwork Theory
It was first published in 1965, and what made it different form all other theories was that Tuckman believed that groups don’t star off “fully formed and functioning”. He believed that that groups changed and evolved through clearly defined stages.
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Forming
Storming
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Performing
Forming:
The initial stage of team development during which individuals have not yet gelled together. Everybody is busy finding their place in the team, sizing each other up, and asking themselves why they are here
Storming:
People begin to see themselves as part of a team. However at this stage they may challenge each other, and the team leader, about such things as what the team is doing, and how things should be done. As the stage title suggests, conflict and confrontation typify this stage, as differences surface. This may result in some loss of performance or focus on the task, as the diagram illustrates.
Norming:
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Developing Teams and Teamwork The Advantages of Teams Leading TeamsTeam Membership Team Development Summary Behavioral Guidelines
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Cases Involving BuildingEffectiveTeams
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BuildingEffectiveTeams and Teamwork
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The Tallahassee Democrat ’s ELITE Team The Cash Register Incident
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Exercises in BuildingEffectiveTeams
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IMPLEMENT PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVETEAM LEADERSHIP FOSTER EFFECTIVETEAM MEMBERSHIP DIAGNOSE AND FACILITATE TEAM DEVELOPMENT BUILD HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAMSTeam Diagnosis and Team Development Exercise Winning the War on Talent
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Activities for BuildingEffectiveTeams
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Suggested Assignments Application Plan and Evaluation
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